Driver killed in crash along Harlem Avenue

February 17, 2004

TINLEY PARK — A Tinley Park man was killed Sunday morning when his van was struck by another car, sending his vehicle crashing into a ravine along Harlem Avenue on the Oak Lawn-Bridgeview border, officials said.

The victim, Mohammad Omari, 56, of the 16600 block of Clover Avenue, was driving south in the 9300 block of Harlem Avenue when he was hit, officials said. The car that struck him was driven by a woman in her late 20s, said Anthony Butkus, Bridgeview fire chief. She was driving onto northbound Harlem when she lost control, the car hopped a median and hit Omari, Butkus said.

At Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Omari was pronounced dead and the woman was in fair condition.